When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.
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About Junot Diaz
Junot Diaz was a contemporary American dominican-american writer and academic. Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former fiction editor at Boston Review. Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience, particularly the Latino immigrant experience. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Work — The value of effort, discipline, and meaningful labour